I stumbled on the article below, on the Old Grey Lady's website. I was wondering how McCain is perceived in the US generally and in the GOP particularly. On paper he looks like a vote winner, yet most republicans (so it seems to me) prefer Bush, is this an ideological thing? Frank S, Wholley, a penn...

Andy,

Put me down for a tenner. I'll spread the word here in case we don't get a visit from you before then.

Pasha

Sully, Did you get an ear-full for calling her 'love'? If memory serves, there was a bleak period in the mid-eighties when merely complimenting a certain type of college girl on her Eastern-Bloc-construction-worker dungarees would lead to you being pounced on by a humourless, savagely earnest hit sq...

he looks like a raving poof - one of these 20-something, Guardian reading (Sorry Pasha) No dramas Andy, I'm a thirty something! Besides, you know that I only read the 'Grauniad Wimmin' page for .... er, research purposes. Seriously though, I think soldiers are an easy target for all manner of peopl...

Prince Charles' parachutist wings are covered at length here: http://www.militaryforums.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6286 As for Andrew's dagger, he passed the Commando course in 1979 http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page469.asp Nobody, no matter who they are, gets to wear an award that they're not au...

Could include the fact that, British DID serve in Vietnam, very limited scale but, they did. Has anybody ever been able to substantiate that rumour? In lieu of any firm on that, I'd stick with the acknowledged military presence in Viet Nam, i.e. the Gurkha guards at the two embassies. Uniformed in ...

Go ask Alice
Regards!

Pasha

Crikey O'Riley! Bert, you're a veritable gastrinomic connoisseur! The five star menu you listed is definitely a step up from the tarted up kedgiree that the Memsahib throws across the table at me. Mind you she's a Boer and those guys don't so much cook as shoot and flay a wild beast, before hanging ...

Bootneck,

You're right it was a terribly sexist assumption, I stand corrected, humbled and chastised. Am currently whipping myself like a frenzied shi'ite.
Regards mate!

Pasha

Jackal, Ref your: a movement which will see Laurence Lewellen-Bowen beaten to death with base ball bats with nails in the end. Funnily enough ... I was at Millwall FC a few years back taking some PR shots of the players and some local lads. What struck me as quite funny at the time, was that right o...

With the anniversary of the battle for Monte Cassino upon us, I think it's about time some recognition was given to the heroic French and French Colonial forces who fought and fell there, and whom are too often overlooked in comemorations of that campaign. A sterling overview of the battle by Richar...

Prez,

I thought we located all the links and passed them to you, or was that Pasha?

That was me and my yearning to understand the mysterious appeal of Ikan Bilis. See following thread:
viewtopic.php?t=7568
Regards!

Pasha

Photographically speaking (I knew I'd be good for something one day!), there are several elements about these images that are inconsistent with what they claim to be. The two most obvious points are the 'static' nature of the subjects and the lighting. To acheive the effect of eliminating any sense ...

Devout atheist since the age of fourteen.
Regards!

Pasha

Tab, I remember us having the SA80/M16 debate before. Your last piece furthers a post that I wrote previously (in response to Chunky from York) and which I have copied below. The full argument can be found here: http://www.militaryforums.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2885&postdays=0&postorder...